Med. and surg. (a) Removal, amputation; ablacioun of blod, bloodletting; also, removal (of the cause of a disease); (b) loss of function (in a part of the body). …

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially……

(a) Med. Arsenic or some of its compounds; prob., a special form of orpiment (arsenic trisulphide) distinguished from the latter by physical properties; (b) arsenik citrinum, orpiment; arsenik rubeum……

(a) A sulphide of arsenic, orpiment; esp., the trisulphide of arsenic, yellow orpiment [used in med. and alch., and regarded as a precious stone]; (b) disulphide of arsenic, red orpiment, realgar. …

Name given to several minerals; prob. borax, malachite, sodium carbonate, verdigris, and possibly others: (a) an ingredient in preparations for soldering metals and for fastening gold leaf; also, a……

(a) Med. Drying out, as by draining or treatment with a desiccative; (b) alch. removal of moisture by the application of heat, desiccation. …

(a) The digestion of food and drink; first digestioun, the digestive process carried on principally in the stomach and intestines; (b) the capacity for digesting food or drink; (c) digestibleness; of……

(a) To flow or fall in drops; trickle, drop; distillen fro(m, distillen out of, distillen of, distillen doun, distillen into, distillen on, distillen to; (b) to shed drops; distillen on; (c) refl.……

Med. & surg. (a) Watering of the eyes; (b) the moistening of bodily tissues, production of moisture in tissues. …

Med. Any one of various inflammatory and eruptive diseases of the skin and flesh; ignis grecus, ?erysipelas; ignis persicus, ?anthrax; ignis salvaticus, ignis sacri, ignis sanctus, sacer ignis……

(a) Alch. The process of soaking a substance in a liquid; (b) med. making dry by absorption of humors. …

(a) Med. & surg. The menstrual flow, menstruation; -- also used in pl.; time of menstrue, a menstrual period; (b) alch. one of three subtle substances used in various alchemical processes. …

To prepare (sth.), make (sth.) ready; make (sth.); alch. prepare (sth.) for use in some process; sal preparate, ?refined salt; ?salt prepared for use in alchemy. …

(a) The process of decomposition of organic matter, rotting, putrefaction; (b) med. the process of decomposition of tissue or fluid in a living body, as in ulceration or suppuration; decay of teeth……

(a) To decompose, rot; become putrid; (b) med. of tissue or fluid in a living body: to become putrid or gangrenous, fester; ppl. putrefied, rotted, gangrenous, suppurating; (c) alch. to decompose……

(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour……

(a) The action of setting a person right in conduct or action; (b) remedying (of the effect of disease); also, a healing or an improvement; (c) alch. a purification by distillation; (d) med. use of an……

(a) A severing, cutting apart, detaching; the act of cutting apart [2nd quot.]; avoidance [quot.: c1460]; also, physical circumcision [1st quot.]; maken separacioun, to make a separation; (b) med. a……

(a) To remove (sth.), detach completely; (b) to divide (sth., persons), keep apart; separaten from, separate (one thing or person) from (another); (c) alch. to refine (a substance) of impurities……

(a) An explanation, answer; also, a reason [quot.: ?a1425]; also, the act of answering a question [last quot.]; (b) an interpretation of a dream. …